Sundust

榮獲 2026 年凱迪克大獎

當岩石牆到了盡頭，沙漠的邊際就此展開。
兩兄妹追隨著陽光灑落的粉塵小徑，跳過矮牆，進入了一個無邊無際、自由自在的世界。在這裡，長滿刺的老仙人掌（nopal）等待著被攀爬；空空的龜殼吸引著好奇的目光；巨大的岩石教導著如何靜坐傾聽；而一隻蜂鳥（colibrí）則提供了意想不到的乘風之旅。

在沙漠中，萬物皆圍繞著太陽旋轉。兩兄妹在這片荒野中探索、想像並思考著：「如果太陽的力量也存在於我的體內呢？」 直到媽媽的哨聲響起，才將他們喚回溫暖的家。

A 2026 Randolph Caldecott Honor

In his striking author-illustrator debut, the award-winning illustrator of My Papi Has a Motorcycle offers an immersive and fantastical desert adventure, where the sun reigns over the vast landscape and shapes all that it touches.

“A hypnotic joy.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Where the rock wall ends, the desert beyond begins.

Following a blazing trail of sundust, two curious siblings hop the wall into a place that’s endless and free. Here, prickly old nopal trees beg to be climbed, empty turtle shells invite a closer look, enormous rocks model how to sit still and listen, and a colibrí offers an unexpected ride. In the desert, where life revolves around the Sun, brother and sister explore, imagine, and wonder, What if Sun’s power was inside me? until their mom’s whistle calls them back home again.

With spare, lyrical text, Pura Belpré Honor and Ezra Jack Keats Honor recipient Zeke Peña has created a fantastical tale that suspends moments in time with his radiant art and celebrates the bonds between the sun, the desert, and its people.